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		<title>The Not-Quite-Ripe Plum, the Meat Truck, and the Dream of the Butcheress</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bade my friend good-bye as I walked past the grocer&#8217;s loading dock, the carts of food left for trash for flaws of expiration dates, of cracks and dents, of irregulation and irreverence for the perfection held in such esteem by the forty-year-old manager unable to see past his automaton doors, his automaton life. Several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of Those Rare Posts Where I&#8217;m NOT Feeling Sorry For Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I pulled a muscle in my tear duct from the past six days of crying uncontrollably.
So I&#8217;m all cried out and trying to escape the heat, considering the fact that it&#8217;s over a hundred degrees here.
Fuck weather.
I like Liz Phair.
She and I get along.
Uncle Alvarez is dead.
       [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarcastic Purgatory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honestly, I suck at life.
I thought I could be happy, selfless, compassionate, Christian stupid. I sucked at that. So then I decided I&#8217;d be a DGAF bitch. I sucked even more at that.
So now I&#8217;m stuck somewhere in the middle. Heaven don&#8217;t want me, Hell thinks I&#8217;m a poser. So now I&#8217;m stuck in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Hell With It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you just leave people and places behind.
I was standing in the shower a few days ago, and I decided I wasn&#8217;t going back to church. Ever.
I wish I could say why, but justifying it to myself is just going to hurt. One of the greatest things about humanity is how we can turn a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brandywine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caleb took me to my old house today.
It was like paramnesia on auto-pilot. We pulled up the driveway, and I half expected him to slow down to avoid hitting the dogs that used to so often greet drivers. He didn&#8217;t.
We stepped up to the French doors. The routine of seven years gravitated my hand toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Relapse Is Just A Second Chance At Recovery</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/a-relapse-is-just-a-second-chance-at-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, it feels good to know you&#8217;re doing something right.
I know you aren&#8217;t supposed to let others define your self-worth, but that isn&#8217;t exactly easy when you&#8217;re a self-doubting adolescent surrounded by people constantly telling you what you&#8217;re doing wrong and never what you&#8217;ve done the right way. It creates this bubble of insecurity-you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Representative McKeon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Representative McKeon,
My name is Alexandra Coffin. I am a representative of the ICU Club at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, CA.
You may or may not know of our cause. We are a dedicated group of kids focused on bringing peace to Uganda, Africa. Our ultimate goal is to end the civil war that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Not Safer Than a Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, I have a thing for titling my blogs after Matthew Good songs. Smart man, he is.
Maybe it&#8217;s because he&#8217;s always right, kind of like a few other people in my life (You know who you are. After all, you&#8217;re always right).
There&#8217;s this thing called the Secret. We have a tendency to tell ourselves we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language Barrier</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/language-of-the-masses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am incapable of this mastery.
The Italian at Henry Miller&#8217;s grand birthday dinner-truly a birthday, or was it a lie on Miller&#8217;s part?-Arturo, cried in pain at his fellow guests&#8217; eloquence and vocabulary. He knew he could never master the English language as they had.
And, as such, I shall never understand the language of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get through Day 29</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/how-to-get-through-day-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valencia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old Navy saying. It goes something like &#8220;Never trust a sailor on his first day or on his last.&#8221;
Recovery&#8217;s kind of like that.
I&#8217;m just now learning why thirty days is such a big deal. I wonder how many people get past day 29. I know I almost didn&#8217;t.
The past few days, I&#8217;ve wanted [...]]]></description>
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